- Aug 13, 2002
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Thanks in advance for your advice(s).
I am in the process of building my first computer (sold my Dell to a friend).
Here are ALL the parts that I have bought, or ordered (coming on Friday from Newegg), or traded:
1) Antec Lanboy Case with 350w Smartblue PSU (bought)
2) Maxtor 120gb, 7200rpm, 8mb cache HDD (bought)
3) Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 9600 (bought)
4) AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton, Retail (ordered)
5) Biostar M7NCD Pro Motherboard (ordered)
6) Liteon Black CDRW/DVD 48X/24X/48X/16X Combo Drive Retail (ordered)
7) 2 Thermaltake 2 ball bearing 80mm case fans (ordered)
8) Arctic Ceramique Thermal Paste (ordered)
9) Kingston 512mb pc2700 Ram (traded for)
...those are all the components that are coming to me. Can someone please tell me if I left anything out? I ordered the retail Athlon, which comes with the HSF...is this thing a piece of crap? Should I order some aftermarket cooling? ...also, can someone tell me the benefits of using a CPU shim? Do I need one? Also, I noticed that the Radeon 9600 vid card came with passive cooling. I guess this will be quieter, but I would like to do some slight overclocking. Should I invest in some VPU heatsink/fan as well? What is a good site to go to, in order to learn about overclocking CPU/RAM? I'm guessing that the Barton, with that motherboard, and ram should get some decent results. This mobo supports "dual channel" DDR. Does this mean that I need two identical sticks of ram (as in brand/chip)?
...any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am in the process of building my first computer (sold my Dell to a friend).
Here are ALL the parts that I have bought, or ordered (coming on Friday from Newegg), or traded:
1) Antec Lanboy Case with 350w Smartblue PSU (bought)
2) Maxtor 120gb, 7200rpm, 8mb cache HDD (bought)
3) Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 9600 (bought)
4) AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton, Retail (ordered)
5) Biostar M7NCD Pro Motherboard (ordered)
6) Liteon Black CDRW/DVD 48X/24X/48X/16X Combo Drive Retail (ordered)
7) 2 Thermaltake 2 ball bearing 80mm case fans (ordered)
8) Arctic Ceramique Thermal Paste (ordered)
9) Kingston 512mb pc2700 Ram (traded for)
...those are all the components that are coming to me. Can someone please tell me if I left anything out? I ordered the retail Athlon, which comes with the HSF...is this thing a piece of crap? Should I order some aftermarket cooling? ...also, can someone tell me the benefits of using a CPU shim? Do I need one? Also, I noticed that the Radeon 9600 vid card came with passive cooling. I guess this will be quieter, but I would like to do some slight overclocking. Should I invest in some VPU heatsink/fan as well? What is a good site to go to, in order to learn about overclocking CPU/RAM? I'm guessing that the Barton, with that motherboard, and ram should get some decent results. This mobo supports "dual channel" DDR. Does this mean that I need two identical sticks of ram (as in brand/chip)?
...any help would be greatly appreciated!